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" Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness. "

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Jean-Michel Basquiat

" I don't attack any kind of script or shooting with some philosophy that is discernible even to myself. It might just be art and love: When I got my Academy Award for 'Virginia Woolf' in the middle of the Vietnam War, I said, 'I hope we can use our art for peace and love.' "

" I'm not gonna give the British Government the joy of keeping taxing me. They don't tax art. And all my cars are just a collection of art. "

" A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world. "

" An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all. "

" The Internet is both great and terrible. As a source of information, a tool for delivering music and art, it's great. But spamming ads and piracy of music is terrible. It's stealing. "

" Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology. "

Edward Thorndike

" I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art. "

" No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language. "

" Life is a lot more interesting if you are interested in the people and the places around you. So, illuminate your little patch of ground, the people that you know, the things that you want to commemorate. Light them up with your art, with your music, with your writing, with whatever it is that you do. "

" To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way. "

" Art is not living. It is the use of living. "

" I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind. "

William Butler Yeats

" Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message. "

Malcolm Muggeridge

" I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use. "

" The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it. "

" I see no reason why the artistic world can't absolutely merge with Madison Avenue. Pop art is a move in that direction. Why can't we have advertisements with beautiful words and beautiful images? "

William S. Burroughs

" It's good to be a martyr for your art, but it's just such a waste of time. "

" One's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes. "

" Painting is by nature a luminous language. "

Robert Delaunay

" Art depends on luck and talent. "

Francis Ford Coppola

" Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them. "

" I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art. "

" Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic. "

" In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects. "

Rabindranath Tagore

" I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body. "

Barbara Hepworth

" I believe that an art exhibition can be engaging, fun and deeply intellectually satisfying and serious. These are not contradictory concepts in art. "

" Life is an illusion. I am held together in the nothingness by art. "

" My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on the brink of the precipice without falling into it. "

Giacomo Casanova

" Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth. "

Publilius Syrus